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Chef, comic, muppet. ACAB. Feisty sock full of nails. I’m hot and angry and will help you if I can. Currently processing grief and might get weird about it. I’m the cat curiosity hasn’t killed. Yet. Still have a lot of stuff to knock off the counter.

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Cogito, ergo cum @buckshot.bsky.social · Feb 17

Know how I know vaccines don’t cause autism?
‘Cuz, if they did, we’d have generations of empathic folks intolerant of injustice and cats would be everywhere and we wouldn’t be dealing with this shit.

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 1d

Printing presses kept their letters in cases.

Capital letters went in the upper case.
Smaller letters went in the lower case.

This is why we say ‘UPPER CASE’ and ‘lower case.’

Ok, but what did we call them before the invention of the printing press?

MAJUSCULE and minuscule.

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 1d

you know what fair

Bootleggirl on twitter writes: "I still dislike the Star Wars sequels but I can't no longer fault them for running with the premise of "20 years after fascism, same fascism again, but stupider" bc I just lived through that.

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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 22h

we are all sherman

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Cogito, ergo cum @buckshot.bsky.social · 11h

I’m exhausted. I’ve been working so hard to keep pushing through random ridiculous bullshit that I forget it’s hurting me.

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 19h

cry havoc and let slip the frogs of war

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Cogito, ergo cum @buckshot.bsky.social · 12h

We’ve got this covered

A fluffy tabby wearing a harness with a handwritten fake FBI badge

Cogito, ergo cum @buckshot.bsky.social · 18h

OK, now there are TWO cameras.

I’m so tired of this strange sadness.

Cogito, ergo cum @buckshot.bsky.social · 19h

I showed this to my Scottish friend and she lost it.

Cogito, ergo cum @buckshot.bsky.social · 19h

If a cringy, pop culture addicted edge lord might think it would be clever to obliquely ape The Simpsons? Maybe thinking it would be clever? Sorry, I just found it too similar.

Cogito, ergo cum @buckshot.bsky.social · 19h

I realized that sounded almost EXACTLY like the speech Stephen Miller gave in high school bitching about having to clean up after himself in the cafeteria. The same dripping contempt, same cadence, same tone. It aired in 1998. When he was in high school.

Would it surprise you at all that all 2/3

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Cogito, ergo cum @buckshot.bsky.social · 19h

Ok. Buckle in. I’ve been watching classic Simpsons episodes and “Trash of The Titans” comes on, where Homer runs for trash commissioner. Watching the speech he gives (Can’t Someone Else Do It?”) sounded a little toooooo familiar. “Aren’t you tired of dragging the trash out to the street?” 1/3

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K @precatlady.bsky.social · 1d

Is anyone keeping an informal list of which local businesses are stoking fear, speaking to fashy news, or could you send me examples so I can? I have the tech just not the info

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Cogito, ergo cum @buckshot.bsky.social · 1d

The text I sent to my friend after forgetting we were supposed to work out together and then promptly fell back to sleep:

I dreamt I was on a road trip with Joe Rogan and Jeff bridges to get to the airport to go to Cancun? But we had to stop at a Fred Meyer for some last minute things.. Joe and I had a fight where I said he was stupid and he called me a bitch and then we made up when I laughed at him saying “we really
Need to have a serious conversation about the rotation of the earth.”
Then I forgot to tell Jeff that we needed cheezits and I found him trying on cowboy shirts that were on sale

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Cogito, ergo cum @buckshot.bsky.social · 1d

Me to transphobes who rant about “mutilation”: Kay, now do circumcision.

RFK opens his orange maw:

Me: wait no not like that.

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Cogito, ergo cum @buckshot.bsky.social · 1d

I’m sitting with 6 public school teachers and holy shit we don’t pay them enough and the bureaucracy is going to cook us

Cogito, ergo cum @buckshot.bsky.social · 1d

Great. Now crazy neighbor has moved the camera from outside her window pointing at the outside door to her doorway in the hallway, pointing at my door.
Agonizing anxiety recommences.
What is this woman’s fucking problem.

Cogito, ergo cum @buckshot.bsky.social · 1d

I asked my pardner, who is an engineer, how work was, and they complained that they spent the whole day physically breaking complex machine parts and making a mess.

Complained.

They make like 5x what I do in a month.

Complained.

Cogito, ergo cum @buckshot.bsky.social · 1d

Why do I have the grim suspicion that this whole crusade against circumcision is some antisemitic dog whistle.

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Bulldog @harpua.bsky.social · 3d

Never forget 🍼

Andy ngo pathetic tweet after getting milkshaked in pdx 2019

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Grem, of 𝐆𝐑𝐄𝐌𝐂𝐎𝐑𝐏 🔜 MCAtlanta! @gremlin.world · 5d

I will never not repost this

(Sound on for maximum effect)

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 3d

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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DAVE! (like "Them!" but Dave) @daveexmachina.bsky.social · 5d

normal person: i just want a place to hang out with my friends
tech weirdo: and shitheads
np: no just my friends
tw: but what about hearing alternative views on race and gender?
np: we just want to hang out and goof around
tw: so where do the shitheads fit in then
np: no shitheads
tw: not following

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Cogito, ergo cum @buckshot.bsky.social · 5d

I’m
Sorry whut

FoulMouth, Life Coach @fergusmcdingus.bsky.social · 5d

This is why ACAB

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 7d

Former LSU wide receiver Kyren Lacy was nearly 100 yards behind a fatal crash that killed a 78 year-old man, a newly released video shows

Lacy took his own life days before he was set to appear before a grand jury

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Cogito, ergo cum @buckshot.bsky.social · 5d

Flashback to all the times I’ve been called “pretentious” for using a single word that exactly & precisely exists to describe what I’m talking about.

Sis. Petty Shabazz @deelo502.bsky.social · 6d

Because neurodivergent people are so literal and honest, we get mislabeled as rude, sassy, or smart-mouthed when we’re actually just being exact.

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Cogito, ergo cum @buckshot.bsky.social · 5d

Whenever I read a thing about The Part of Small Govmt and also Law & Order saying that regulation is bad I think about the town that was taken over by libertarians and ended up with a huge bear problem and I have a chuckle.